{"id":3528,"date":"2025-10-14T11:01:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T11:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libmanandiocese.org\/?p=3528"},"modified":"2025-10-17T08:23:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T08:23:28","slug":"appropriating-benefit-obtained-from-a-morally-compromised-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libmanandiocese.org\/?p=3528","title":{"rendered":"Appropriating Benefit Obtained from a Morally Compromised Source"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This paper explores the Philippine Church\u2019s theological and moral framework on appropriating benefits that originate in wrongdoing, examining doctrine, and church practice in light of the flood control scandal. We ask: Under what conditions, if any, is it morally permissible to make use of resources tainted by corruption? What duties do Church leaders, public officials, and lay faithful have\u2014to resist, reform, return, or transform such resources? Ultimately, this study seeks to clarify a path for restoring justice, common trust, and the integrity of public benefit in the Philippines today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/libmanandiocese.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Appropriation-of-Evil-1.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Appropriation of Evil.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-12242aeb-8019-47ab-a3d7-b511635a597e\" href=\"https:\/\/libmanandiocese.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Appropriation-of-Evil-1.pdf\">Appropriation of Evil<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/libmanandiocese.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Appropriation-of-Evil-1.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-12242aeb-8019-47ab-a3d7-b511635a597e\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This paper explores the Philippine Church\u2019s theological and moral framework on appropriating benefits that originate in wrongdoing, examining doctrine, and church practice in light of the flood control scandal. We ask: Under what conditions, if any, is it morally permissible to make use of resources tainted by corruption? What duties do Church leaders, public officials,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cbcp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libmanandiocese.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libmanandiocese.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libmanandiocese.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libmanandiocese.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libmanandiocese.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3528"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/libmanandiocese.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3537,"href":"https:\/\/libmanandiocese.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528\/revisions\/3537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libmanandiocese.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libmanandiocese.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libmanandiocese.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libmanandiocese.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}